Artena dotata

Artena dotata is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from the Indian subregion to Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Japan, Sumatra and Borneo.

Artena dotata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Artena
Species:
A. dotata
Binomial name
Artena dotata
(Fabricius, 1794)
Synonyms
  • Noctua dotata Fabricius, 1794
  • Thyas dotata (Fabricius)

Description

Its wingspan is about 72 mm. The body is bronze brown. Forewings with a white speck in the cell. Antemdial and postmedial lines of forewings are very oblique, where antemedials are not waved and postmedials very slightly waved. Reniform broken up into two spots. A prominent marginal greyish band with a waved line found on it. Hindwings with prominent medial incomplete white band. The margin and cilia whitish. Ventral side with pale basal areas in both wings.[1]

Spherical eggs are blue green and vertically ridged. Larvae spidery with the comb-like true legs on a thick thorax. Abdomen long. Primary setae are long. Third-instar larvae light brown with a white line series, which running longitudinally. Pupa typically ophiusine form.[2]

The larvae feed on Combretum, Getonia, Quisqualis and Terminalia species.[2]

References
  1. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. "Artena dotata Fabricius". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 13 August 2016.


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